Political Quotes · Page 146

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

— Barkhad Abdi

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the…

— Kellyanne Conway

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

— Alan Sokal

We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva test administered by candidates.

— William Kovach

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

— Manmohan Singh

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

— Chris Grayling

There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand,…

— Walter Wriston

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned…

— Vladimir Lenin

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you'll see on my social media, I'm never going to get political. I do think there's something about entertainers where it's…

— Jake Johnson

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top…

— Bruce Sterling

Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are…

— Vladimir Putin

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time…

— Bernie Sanders

I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more…

— Tariq Ramadan

The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is…

— John Leo

The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose…

— Tom Vanderbilt

“We must distinguish between military and political power. Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

Indisputably we live in a shaped reality, an artificialism. Most people who grasp this are thinking only at a consumer-level, of the…

— Kenny Smith

In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they…

— Yasmine Elmasri

Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two parties have…

— Charles Ferguson

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your…

— Josephine Meckseper

It would have been better if the United Nations had sent a team to Mali right away to mediate between the government…

— Ahmed Rashid

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.

— Narendra Modi

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

— James Bovard

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

— Dominic Cummings

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

— Patri Friedman

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

— Vaclav Klaus

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of…

— Julian Assange

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am the first to admit that I am not the greatest campaign strategist or political analyst.

— Tom Tancredo

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

— Huey Long

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come…

— Walter Bagehot

President Bush spent the day calling names he couldn't pronounce in countries he never knew existed.

— Jay Leno

The political groups who have taken the responsibility to elect Mr. Macron have been discredited.

— Marine Le Pen

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

— Anonymous

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

— Donna Brazile

If they did not want President Obama in office, why are they prepping another black person into office?

— Steve Polydor

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

— Hillary Clinton